Looking for an
Akrivi alternative?
Anchr Tools does the same production work inside Illustrator, grids, guidelines, presentations and logo exports, and adds the part Akrivi stops at: delivering the brand to the client as a hosted page instead of a folder on Google Drive. Here is an honest comparison.
Akrivi Studio is the more established plugin suite, with years of tutorials, free templates and hundreds of reviews. It costs $99 a year for every tool and gives you three days to try it. Anchr Tools covers the same four jobs and adds a hosted brand portal per client, starts at $49 a year, and gives you 7 days to try it. If your deliverable is a PDF and a folder, Akrivi is a safe choice. If your deliverable should be a link, Anchr Tools is the one built for it.
At a glance.
Read on akrivi.studio on 9 September 2026. Tell us at [email protected] if something has changed.
| Criterion | Akrivi Studio | Anchr Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Runs inside Adobe Illustrator | Yes, a plugin suite (Gridit, Presentit, Guideit, Exportit). | Yes, one panel with five tabs: Grid, Deck, Guide, Ship, Portal. |
| Logo grids | Gridit: base grids, construction grids, clearspace grids. | Anchr Grid: square, isometric, hexagonal and golden ratio base grids; anchors, handles, outlines, gridlines and circular trajectories; clear space at X, X/2 and X/4; one-click native guides. |
| Brand guidelines | Guideit: automated templates, generated inside Illustrator, shared as a document. | Anchr Guide: three templates, Atlas (20 pages), Folio (12 pages) and Narrow (1 page), prefilled from the file's swatches, fonts and name, exported as PDF, updatable in place. Tone of voice, clear space, minimum sizes and do's and don'ts are set in the panel, written into Folio and published on the brand portal. |
| Presentations | Presentit: bento grid layouts, switchable styles. | Anchr Deck: bento grid layouts, four styles, 3 to 12 sections, corner and gutter sliders. |
| Logo files | Exportit: sizes, formats and folder structures, shared via Google Drive or Dropbox. Marked "coming soon" in the Studio bundle on the home page. | Anchr Ship: black and white variants of the three logos, SVG, PNG at 2x, PDF and print-ready PDF/X-1a, favicons, app icons and social images, in a numbered folder tree, retouched variants preserved. |
| Delivery to the client | A document and a folder, sent by you. | Anchr Portal: a hosted page per brand at anchr.tools/b/your-brand, colours to copy, files to download, usage rules and tone of voice, always the current version, no client account, optional password. |
| Price | $99 a year, all tools, up to 2 devices. | Per brand $49 a year with one live portal and one seat, Studio $199 a year with unlimited portals and three seats. |
| Trial | 3 days, card required. | 7 days on Per brand, 14 on Studio, card required, nothing charged before the trial ends. |
| Refunds | None, per its FAQ; the trial is the test period. | Cancel during the trial and nothing is charged; cancel later and the period runs to its end. |
| Illustrator versions | 2021 to 2026. | 2023 or newer. |
| Hardware | 16 GB of RAM recommended. | No stated minimum beyond Illustrator's own. |
| Tutorials and free templates | About 130 articles, 19 videos and free grid, guidelines and presentation templates. | Tool pages, an install guide and a learn hub of thirteen guides. |
| Reviews | 4.8 from 308 reviews, shown on its site. | Launched in 2026. No public reviews yet. |
Where they differ, and when it matters.
Grids
Both draw the grids a logo designer shows in a case study. Akrivi's Gridit covers base, construction and clearspace grids. Anchr Grid adds four base grid types including isometric and hexagonal, per-element styling for anchors, handles, outlines and gridlines, circle fitting on curves, and a clear space guide that documents the rule as a proportion of the mark (X, X/2, X/4). Both leave your artwork untouched. If you need a specific grid look that one of them produces and the other does not, that decides it; otherwise the two are close.
Brand guidelines
Akrivi's Guideit generates guidelines from automated templates and is the tool its founder built the company on; expect polish and a large body of examples. Anchr Guide works the same way, with three templates, Atlas in 20 pages, Folio in 12 and Narrow in one, and starts by reading the brand from the open file: named swatches, fonts in use, document name. Its Voice and rules section holds the tone of voice, the clear space and minimum size rules and the do's and don'ts, with the clear space measured by Anchr Grid; Folio writes all of it into the guidelines, Atlas prints the minimum sizes, and the brand portal publishes it whatever the template. When a colour changes after delivery, Apply Changes updates the open document in place. Both produce a document you send. Only Anchr also publishes the same brand as a page.
Presentations
Both generate bento layouts inside Illustrator. Akrivi's Presentit offers switchable styles; Anchr Deck offers four layouts and three sliders with a Shuffle button. This is the closest match of the four tools.
Logo files
Akrivi's Exportit promises sizes, formats and folder structures, with delivery through Google Drive or Dropbox; on 9 September 2026 its home page listed brand file generation as coming soon inside the Studio bundle. Anchr Ship generates the black and white variants of the three logos, exports every artboard as SVG, PNG at 2x, PDF and print-ready PDF/X-1a, adds favicons, app icons and social images at their exact pixel sizes, and files everything in a numbered folder tree; it is available now. It does not produce Pantone files.
Delivery to the client
This is the difference that changes the workflow. With Akrivi, the last step is yours: a PDF, a folder, an email, and the version problem that comes with it. With Anchr, the last step is a link: Anchr Portal publishes colours with click-to-copy codes, typography, logo files on light and dark, usage rules, the tone of voice and a zip of everything to a hosted page in the brand's colours. The client needs no account, and a password is optional. Each publish becomes a new version at the same address, so nobody keeps an old file, because nobody keeps a file. See the example portal.
Pricing and trial
Akrivi is $99 a year for everything, on up to two devices, with a three-day trial and no refunds. Anchr Tools is $49 a year for Per brand (all five tools, one live portal, one seat, 7 day trial) and $199 a year for Studio (unlimited portals, three seats, 14 day trial), nothing charged before the trial ends. For a freelancer delivering a few brands a year, Anchr is the cheaper way in; for a studio that wants unlimited hosted brands, Studio costs twice Akrivi and includes what Akrivi does not have.
Tutorials, templates and community
Akrivi wins this one today, and it is not close: around 130 articles, 19 videos, free templates, hundreds of reviews and an active YouTube channel. Anchr Tools has its tool pages, an install guide and a learn hub of thirteen guides, including an honest list of the Illustrator plugins for logo designers that puts both suites side by side with everything else. If you learn a tool from its tutorials, Akrivi still has more to read.
Requirements
Akrivi supports Illustrator 2021 to 2026 and recommends 16 GB of RAM. Anchr Tools requires Illustrator 2023 or newer on macOS 12 or Windows 10 and later, with no stated minimum beyond Illustrator's own. On an older Illustrator, Akrivi is the only one of the two that runs.
Who should pick which.
Stay with Akrivi if
You want the largest library of tutorials and free templates. Your clients are happy with a PDF and a folder. You are on Illustrator 2021 or 2022. You want two machines for $99 a year.
Switch to Anchr Tools if
Your clients lose files and ask for the logo again. You want one link per brand that always shows the current version. You want a lower entry price for a couple of brands a year. You want a full week to test.
Switching takes an afternoon.
There is nothing to migrate. Both tools read the Illustrator files you already have, and both panels can stay installed side by side.
Start the trial
7 days on Per brand, 14 on Studio, card required, nothing charged before it ends.
Install the panel
A signed ZXP, installed with a free ZXP installer, then Window, Extensions, Anchr Tools. The install guide covers it in four steps.
Open a brand you already delivered
Generate its grid, its guidelines and its exports, and publish it as a portal. Compare the result with what you sent last time.
Send the link instead of the folder
If the client opens it, you have your answer.
Questions people ask before switching.
Per brand is: $49 a year against $99. Studio is $199 a year, which is more than Akrivi, and includes unlimited hosted portals, which Akrivi does not offer, and three seats.
Yes. Both are Illustrator extensions and appear side by side under Window, Extensions. Nothing in one interferes with the other.
No. Anchr Guide ships its own three templates, Atlas, Folio and Narrow; Akrivi's are Akrivi's.
Not that its site shows as of 9 September 2026. Its Exportit page suggests sharing logo files through Google Drive or Dropbox.
It tries to be. Every statement about Akrivi comes from akrivi.studio as read on the date above, and the page names what Akrivi does better. If you find an error, write to [email protected] and it will be corrected.
Anchr Tools is not affiliated with Akrivi. Akrivi, Gridit, Guideit, Presentit and Exportit are trademarks of their owner. Adobe and Illustrator are trademarks of Adobe Inc.
Try the one that ships a link.
Same production work inside Illustrator, plus a hosted page instead of a folder to manage.
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